Head of Department for the Protection of State Secrets. Department for the Protection of State Secrets

Moscow, st. Molodogvardeyskaya 10, metro station Molodezhnaya, metro station Kuntsevskaya To show on the map

work experience from 3 years, higher education, full-time

By agreementResponsibilities:

Organization, provision and control of the protection of state secrets and protection of information from unauthorized access at informatization objects (development of organizational and planning documents, organization of work of secret office work, admission work, management of the information protection authority, control of compliance with the requirements for HRT and ZI in the structural divisions of the Institute) .

Requirements:

Higher specialized professional education and work experience (military service) in the Russian Ministry of Defense and other law enforcement agencies. Preference is given to candidates with experience in the military or similar public service.

Conditions:

Full-time. 5-day work week, working day from 8.30 to 17.30.
Registration for work according to the Labor Code of the Russian Federation.
Payment of a monthly bonus, as well as remuneration at the end of the year. There is a canteen and the possibility of providing additional medical care in the departmental polyclinic of the RF Ministry of Defense. When granting an annual basic leave, material assistance is paid (depending on the length of service at the Institute). The specific salary is determined by the head of the institution based on the results of the interview. After 3 months of work, a personal increase factor to the official salary can be established. Full time work at the employer's premises.

In modern conditions, electronic warfare (EW) is one of the main types of operational support for combat operations of troops. The experience of local wars and armed conflicts shows that the use of EW forces and means can lead, for example, to an increase in the combat potential of ground forces by 1.5-2 times, a decrease in aviation losses in the air by 4-6 times, and warships by 2-3 times. 3 times. The contribution of electronic warfare to the solution of such an important operational task of the troops as the disorganization of command and control systems for enemy troops and weapons can reach 70%.

The electronic warfare service has gone through a difficult path of its formation in our missile army. From solving narrowly focused issues of electronic countermeasures to solving issues of combat support.

Lieutenant Colonel Iovlev Gennady Pavlovich was appointed the first head of the electronic countermeasures service in 1971. Thanks to his organizational skills, extensive experience, engineering "flair", with a shortage of specialists and special equipment in the troops, he was able to solve the tasks at the highest level.

Further formation and improvement of the electronic warfare service was continued by Colonel Yevdokimov Yuri Mikhailovich. Under his leadership, work was launched to prepare and put on combat duty the units of integrated technical control (UKTK).

Colonel Verblyudov Viktor Vasilyevich, appointed in 1981 to the post of head of the service, continued to work on improving the methods of protecting missile weapons from high-precision weapons with his characteristic dedication.

In 1988, Zhikhalkin Fedor Fedorovich was appointed to the post of head of the service. In the course of organizational and staffing measures carried out in the 90s, with a reduction in the total number of staff of the service, he managed not only to retain personnel, but also to increase the quantitative and qualitative indicators of electronic warfare. Comprehensive technical control units are equipped with new types of measuring equipment, new complexes are put on combat duty, which make it possible to increase the effectiveness of control.

Through the efforts of the EW service of the army in the mid-90s, a short-wave direction-finding network of radio waves was deployed on the territory of Western Siberia on the basis of the UKTK connections. Much attention is paid to the training of personnel for the troops, laboratories and educational institutions. Many officers subsequently became chiefs of EW services of divisions, senior lecturers at higher educational institutions, candidates of sciences, and first-class specialists. Among them are Colonels Somov Yu.I., Linnik M.Yu., Mansurov R.G., Parfenchik Yu.M., Pankov G.K. and Chugunov V.S.

During the period when the EW service was headed by Colonel Sergei Valentinovich Nekrasov, work continued to improve the organization of the service in the unit.

In 2001, Lieutenant Colonel Drotenko Alexander Gennadievich was appointed to the position of head of the EW service, who, due to his high professional and moral and business qualities, received the military rank of colonel ahead of schedule for his great contribution to the development of the EW service of the association.

From 2003 to 2009, the EW service of the Omsk Missile Army was led by Colonel Yury Avangardovich Sakhno. Since 2009, Lieutenant Colonel Antonov Vladislav Gennadievich has been appointed head of the electronic warfare service. Since 2008, the duties of a senior officer of the service have been performed by Lieutenant Colonel Skutin Oleg Leonidovich.

Since its inception, the Special Service has been dealing with issues of guaranteed protection of nuclear weapons from unauthorized use by blocking combat control systems and missile launches.

The management of the implementation of this complex of organizational and technical measures in the 7th ORC was entrusted to the senior officer of the operational department of the corps, Major Shaforost V.P.

Subsequently, with the formation of the missile army, senior officers of the operational department of the association for the prevention of unauthorized use of nuclear weapons dealt with blocking issues: Lieutenant Colonel Litvinov I.I. (1971-1972), and then Lieutenant Colonel Shaforost V.P.

During this period, the special service actively solved its tasks in connection with the re-equipment of the "OS" divisions with new military equipment.

From 1977 to 1987, Colonel Vladimir Alexandrovich Rastorguev was in charge of the special service. In 1979, with the formation of a special service as an independent division of the army, Colonel Rastorguev V.A. became the first chief of service. During this period, the special service participated in building up the combat power of the missile army, mastering the 15P018 and RSD-10 missile systems, new automated combat control systems, both wired and using combat control radio channels; successfully completed a set of measures to put RSD-10 missile systems on combat duty in the Novosibirsk and Barnaul missile divisions; dealt with the training of officers on duty combat shifts; took a direct part in the preparation and conduct of combat training launches of missiles from the position areas of the Alei and Uzhur missile divisions.

In the period from 1987 to 1990, the special service was headed by Colonel Makarov Boris Alexandrovich, and from 1990 to 1995 - by Colonel Yakimovets Alexander Afanasyevich.

During this period of time, the special service was entrusted with the task of maintaining the constant combat readiness of missile systems on combat duty, as well as preventing unauthorized launches of missiles to be dismantled.

In the period from 1995 to 2001, the head of the special service was Colonel Sultanov Alfit Gaptelyanovich.

In 2001, Colonel Sergei Vitalievich Toneev was appointed head of the special service. With his arrival, the special service of the army took a leading position in the Strategic Missile Forces.

In 2002, in connection with the disbandment of the Chita association, the special services of the Irkutsk, Kansk and Krasnoyarsk missile divisions became part of the special service of the 33rd Missile Army.

In 2003, thanks to the high organization and high-quality preparation for the test, the association successfully passed a serious exam - a test by the commission of the Office of the head of the special service of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation with an "excellent" rating.

Since 2005, the head of the special service of the Omsk Missile Army is Colonel Sergey Nikolayevich Chigaryov. In continuation of the glorious traditions in 2009, the missile army again reported during the inspection of the head of the reorganized special service of the Main Operational Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation for an "excellent" rating.

The Special Service continues to consistently and successfully solve the tasks entrusted to it to maintain high combat readiness of missile weapons and combat control equipment, while ensuring guaranteed protection of nuclear weapons from unauthorized use.

In 1960, Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Fedorovich Perov, a participant in the Great Patriotic War, was appointed the first head of the eighth department of the training artillery range. Under his leadership, in 1961, the special body was reorganized into the eighth branch of the rocket corps. As the head of the department, Lieutenant Colonel Perov A.F. held until 1967.

In 1967-1971, the eighth branch (department) was headed by Lieutenant Colonel Tsarik Petr Fedorovich, also a participant in the Great Patriotic War. And in 1970, the eighth department was reorganized into the eighth department. This leader made a great contribution to the patriotic education of young officers, graduates of the Krasnodar Higher Military School named after General of the Army Shtemenko S.M.

From 1971 to 1974, the department was commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Yury Alexandrovich Kurchatkin. On August 17, 1974, a special organ of the Army CP took up combat duty. The first head of the training of personnel for this event was Lieutenant Colonel Kurchatkin Yu.A. By that time, he had 32 years of experience in special work, including three years of experience in organizing covert communications, providing command of special communications in the conduct of hostilities during the Great Patriotic War.

In 1974-1990, the department was headed by Lieutenant Colonel Viktor Mikhailovich Redko, Colonel Mikhail Pavlovich Musatov. During this period, special bodies of the Armed Forces of the country were transferred to a new fleet of electronic equipment.

From 1990 to 1994, the department was headed by Lieutenant Colonel Babchenko Nikolai Vladimirovich.

In the period from 1994 to 2000, the department was headed by Colonel Antonov Vladimir Viktorovich, Colonel Ganzha Alexander Vasilyevich. At that time, a pilot operation and putting on combat duty of a new generation of special communications equipment was carried out in the special bodies of the association.

From 2000 to 2002, the department was headed by Colonel Pershin Vyacheslav Viktorovich. Personally, he did a lot of work in improving the organization of covert communications and combat duty in the special agencies of the association.

From 2002 to 2007, the department (service) was headed by Colonel Petukhov Anatoly Vitalievich. At this time, in connection with the publication of new regulatory documents, work was carried out to improve the issue of protecting state secrets. In 2003, the eighth department was reorganized into the state secret protection service.

In 2007, Colonel Evgeny Anatolievich Bespalkov headed the state secret protection service of the Omsk Missile Army.

In 2000-2009, a significant contribution to the organization of work to ensure the protection of state secrets and the implementation of special communications was made and is being made by service officers Lieutenant Colonel Yurov O.V., Major Avilov D.A., Lieutenant Colonel Gorbik E.A., Majors Lagunov A.V. ., Maisuradze P.K. and Tabachenko P.D.

During the period of carrying out measures to transfer the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation to a new look, carried out in 2009, the state secret protection service with dignity and honor performs all the tasks in providing covert communications command, ensuring the protection of state secrets and protecting information from unauthorized access at computing facilities. technology.

Features of training for the protection of state secrets

DOI: 10.24411/2311-1763-2016-00034

Annotation. The report outlines the features of the training of personnel from a soldier to an officer who have protected state secrets in the army and navy over the 90 years of the existence of a special service.

Keywords: protection of state secrets (ZGT), ZGT Service, special agencies.

summary. The report outlines the features of training of the soldier to the officer who carried out the protection of state secrets in the army and in the navy for 90 years of existence of the special service.

keywords: Protection of State Secrets (PSS), PSS Service, spetsorgany.

“Each state strives to carefully keep its secrets. At the same time, the activities of state services, called upon to carry out this protection in one way or another, also fall into the category of secret. In the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the State Secret Protection Service, headed by the Eighth Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, deals with the protection of state secrets.

As Tatyana Soboleva rightly noted: “The history of the cryptographic service is an integral part of the history of the Russian state and has attracted considerable interest from researchers since the middle of the 19th century. One of the first domestic scientific publications on this topic was the work of G. Popov “Diplomatic secret writing of the era of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich” (in “Notes of the Archaeological Society”, T. V. St. Petersburg, 1853). To one degree or another, this issue was addressed in their works by such prominent scientists as academicians A.I. Sobolevsky, M.N. Speransky and some others, however, as a rule, only in the paleographic aspect. The formation of the domestic cryptographic service took place over many decades and even centuries. The principles and foundations of this work, its forms and methods, techniques and methods were developed by several generations of Russian cryptographers, their work, experience, and sometimes painful search for truth. In this history, as in the history of any science, any kind of human activity, there were victories and defeats, successes and failures, great and tragic pages. All of them are our national treasure, our memory, pride and pain. And the duty of domestic historical science is to open these pages.

The work of modern Russian historians M. A. Alekseev, M. Yu.

To a lesser extent, the task of studying the historical experience of Soviet Russia and the post-Soviet period in the development of encryption has been solved.

At the same time, even at the dawn of Soviet power, when the All-Russian Main Headquarters was created in May 1918, the General Department of the Military Statistics Department of the Operational Directorate was formed in its composition, which was entrusted with the development of the first documents of the covert administration. During the reorganization of the VGSh by the order of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic No. 217 dated November 13, 1918, the General Department was transformed into the General and Encryption Department of the Organizational Administration of the VGSh. This day is celebrated as the date of the creation of the Encryption Service, or the ZGT Service (hereinafter referred to as special agencies. Auth.), in the Armed Forces of our state, which has ensured and continues to ensure the safety of state and official secrets and is developing instructions and rules that ensure the procedure for working with secret documents .

By 1920, the creation of full-time special agencies at the headquarters of the fronts, military districts, armies and divisions was basically completed. In the 1920s, during the Civil War in Russia, the Encryption Department was formed at the Field Headquarters, then the Central Encryption Department of the Red Army Headquarters and other special agencies of the Red Army, their staffs were determined up to and including brigades. Since 1924, the Central Cipher Department was called the Cipher Department under the Revolutionary Military Council of the USSR, since 1926 it was transformed into the 2nd Department of the NKVMD Administration, from September 1930 - into the 7th Department of the Red Army Headquarters, and from October 13, 1930 - in the 8th department of the headquarters of the Red Army; in the districts - in the 8th departments, and on the seas and fleets - in the 10th departments.

The training of officer cadres for the special agencies of the Red Army and the RKKF in 1926 began with the publication of the order of the NKVMD at the special departments of the headquarters of the military districts, where training teams of special service one-year students were created. Also, the training of cryptographers was carried out at courses at a special department of the Cheka.

The peculiarity of this period was that the training of specialists of the Service was carried out directly in the course of practical work. To this end, already at the beginning of 1919, training teams of 3 to 10 people began to be created at some headquarters of the fronts and armies to train specialists in the protection of state secrets. Thus, a careful selection and "piece" training of specialists was carried out.

From 11/15/1929, by order of the Revolutionary Military Council of the USSR No. 283/58, at the 2nd department of the NKVMD, special training courses are organized for officers of the middle and senior commanding staff with a staffing of 60–70 students of the combined arms department and 20–25 of the marine department. These courses were formed and seconded to the Military Academy named after M.V. Frunze in Moscow. This date is the starting point or the birthday of the Krasnodar Military School.

Initially, the duration of the course was 4 months. Training sessions at the courses began on November 15, 1929. From that day on, the school has its history. During their tenure, the courses went through a number of reorganizations and locations. In November 1930, the courses were reorganized into the Special Department of the Special Headquarters Service at the shooting and tactical improvement courses for the officers of the Red Army "Shot", and in May 1932 - into a special course "C" of the Moscow courses for the improvement of the command staff of the mechanized troops of the Red Army with deployment in the Moscow region.

At the beginning of 1934, the courses were relocated to Tambov and seconded to the Tambov Joint School of Artillery and Weapons Technicians. In 1935, they were transferred to an independent state and received the name "Tambov advanced training courses for the command personnel of the special staff service of the Red Army" with a training period of 12 months. Before the start of the Great Patriotic War, about two thousand specialists of the service were trained at the courses.

Since the beginning of the war, the flow of information, which requires efficiency and reliability, has increased many times, but at the same time, special protection was also required from unauthorized access to state and military secrets. Already on August 18, 1941, the Directorate of the Cryptographic Service of the General Staff of the Red Army was created in the General Staff. There was an urgent need for specialists. The courses switched to a six-month training.

At the same time, due to the fact that by the end of 1941 Tambov was in the front line, the courses were relocated to the village of Sengiley, Ulyanovsk Region, and in mid-1942, to Ulyanovsk. In 1943, the courses received the name "Special Courses for the Improvement of the Officers of the Red Army", and in December they were awarded the Battle Banner. At the end of 1944, the courses were relocated to a separate military camp in the village of Novobelitsa, Gomel Region.

For the entire period of the Great Patriotic War, 2,640 special service officers were trained at the courses. In total, during the war, the Eighth Directorate and eight departments of the headquarters of the fronts and districts carried out constant painstaking work on the selection and registration of personnel of special agencies. In total, during the war years, 5,530 special agencies were formed and reorganized with a total number of 15,634 specialists. The total losses during the war amounted to 6,734 people, of which 2,163 were combat casualties.

After the war, in 1948, the courses were transferred to Voronezh, and in 1949 to Rostov-on-Don.

Subsequently, until 1976, similar training teams were used to train reserve officers.

A feature of the post-war period was the emergence of new, more modern technology and the increase in the volume of information, as well as the increased concern of the state for the preservation of state secrets, there were also serious changes in the rearmament of special agencies, which ultimately resulted in a significant change in the approach to training specialists capable of protecting state secrets. in the army and navy.

On December 29, 1949, a decision was made to create a military school for special communications, which was formed on the basis of courses in January 1950, but already with a three-year training period. In 1954, the school was transferred to Krasnodar, where in 1964 it was renamed the Krasnodar Military School.

The technical revolution, the volume of correspondence, new branches and types of the armed forces, the emergence of computers and new means of communication - all this together led to the need to raise the level of education of specialists in the protection of state and military secrets.

In 1969, the school was transformed into the Krasnodar Higher Military School of the Red Banner with a four-year term of study.

By order of the Government of the Russian Federation dated December 24, 2008 No. 1951-r, the school was reorganized into a branch of the Military Academy of Communications named after Marshal of the Soviet Union S.M. Budyonny, and in 2015 again to the Krasnodar Higher Military School.

In general, in the course of its development, a unique unified multi-level system for training military specialists from a soldier to an officer was created on the basis of the school.

A feature of this period of training of special personnel was the need to carry out comprehensive training of unique specialists, including:

• training of officers with full military special training;
• training of military personnel in programs of secondary vocational education;
• training of officers in postgraduate and doctoral studies;
• retraining and advanced training of officers;
• professional retraining of discharged servicemen;
• training of military personnel undergoing military service under the contract;
• training of reserve officers and sergeants from among students of educational institutions of higher professional education;
• training of junior specialists - servicemen undergoing military service on conscription.

Another specific feature was the fact that at a certain historical stage, specialized specialists for the Strategic Missile Forces were entrusted by the state to train other universities of the RF Armed Forces, for example, the Peter the Great Military Academy of the Strategic Missile Forces. In the Russian Federation, the academic department "Information Protection in Weapons Systems and Complexes" has made a number of graduations of officer cadres for the modern ZGT Service. Since 1990, the Academy has been training specialists in the interests of the Eighth Directorate in the specialty “Protection of space radio links” (until 1996) and “Protection of information in weapons systems and complexes. Control over the regime of secrecy ”(until 2000). Since 2000, the department has been training officers in the specialty "Information Security Management in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation" (until 2010). In 2012–2013 a 10-month training was conducted in the APE system on managing the protection of state secrets in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. Since the 2013/14 academic year, a two-year training of officers of the ZGT Service with a higher operational and tactical education has been carried out.

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NOVEMBER 13 S.G. THE SERVICE FOR THE PROTECTION OF STATE SECRETS OF THE ARMED FORCES OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION turns 90 years old. Lieutenant-General Yevgeny MARUSIN, who has been heading this important link in the command and control system since 2007, tells about little-known pages in the history of this special service.

- Comrade lieutenant general! Due to the specifics of the tasks assigned to the Service you lead, not only its activities, but also its history is practically unknown to the military, and even more so to the civilian readership of our magazine. Open, please, some pages of the annals of governance.

– Over nine decades, many interesting and instructive, tragic and heroic events have taken place in the life of our special service.

The official date of its creation is November 13, 1918, when, during the reorganization of the All-Russian General Staff, by order No. 217 of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic (RVSR), a General and Special Department with a staff of 14 employees was formed.

This day is celebrated as the date of the creation of a special service in the Armed Forces of our state.

At the same time, a special unit was formed as part of the RVSR Field Headquarters. Then special bodies were created in the Main Artillery Directorate, the Central Directorate of Military Communications, the Communications Directorate, the Supply Directorate and a number of other directorates.

By 1920, the creation of full-time special agencies at the headquarters of the fronts, military districts, armies and divisions was basically completed, which in fact meant the creation in the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army (RKKA) of the foundations of a system of covert command and control of troops (forces).

It should be especially noted that during this period the first Soviet military special documents were developed and began to be applied, experience was accumulated in organizing and implementing covert communications, the first guiding documents for the special service were created, and a cadre of specialists grew in practical work. In other words, the foundations were laid for the service of protecting state secrets in the Red Army and Navy.

Subsequently, the optimization of the structure, composition and number of the Central Cipher Department, which since 1926 was transformed into the 2nd Department of the Administration of the People's Commissariat for Military and Naval Affairs (NKVMD), took place. In September 1930, this department was transformed into the 7th Department of the Red Army Headquarters, and on October 13, 1930 - into the 8th Department of the Red Army Headquarters, which became the central encryption body of the Red Army.

His work was mainly carried out in the following areas:

• study of the theoretical and practical heritage of the past in cryptography;
• improvement of published covert communication documents;
• development and implementation of unified guiding documents;
• selection and training of personnel;
• improvement of the organizational structure;
• introduction of means of mechanization of special communications;
• summarizing the experience of special agencies in combat conditions.

- Where and how were specialists prepared then?

- As you know, the young Red Army did not have such specialists. At first, their training was carried out at the workplace in the course of practical work. On November 15, 1929, in Moscow, under the 2nd department of the NKVMD Administration, special advanced training courses began to function for middle and senior commanding officers with a staff of 70 students in the combined arms department. and marine - 25 people. The courses were formed in an abbreviated version without the administrative apparatus and command and teaching staff and were seconded to the Military Academy named after M.V. Frunze.

This date became the date of formation of the current main military educational institution for the training of specialists in the state secret protection service - the Krasnodar Higher Military School (Military Institute) named after General of the Army S.M. Shtemenko.

Graduates of the courses took an active part in the hostilities near the lake. Hasan, r. Khalkhin Gol, in the war with Finland, in Spain and China.

By the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, about 2,000 officers had been trained and sent to the troops. It was they who headed most of the special agencies of the headquarters of the fronts, districts, armies and divisions by the beginning of the war, and also ensured the mobilization deployment of special agencies.

– What else was interesting in the 1930s?

- First of all, the order of the People's Commissar of Defense (NKO) dated July 19, 1939, by which the 8th department of the General Staff of the Red Army was renamed the Department of Special Service and included as an independent structural unit in the Operational Directorate of the General Staff of the Red Army.

The management of special agencies from the General Staff to the corps was entrusted to the corresponding operational departments and departments, and in divisions equal to them and lower, the special agencies remained directly subordinate to the chiefs of staff.

It should also be noted that in the prewar years, the tasks and functions of the service were expanded and specified. Special agencies were entrusted with the task of directing and monitoring the state of work of special sectors (office work). In September 1937, the functions of organizing covert command and control of troops (forces) were finally returned to the special agencies.

- So, we leafed through the annals of management before the start of the Great Patriotic War. How prepared were the special agencies for such a severe test?

- In general, the structure, composition and number of special agencies, the organization of their work in the pre-war period corresponded to the tasks and requirements for the command and control system of troops (forces).

At the same time, already the first days of the war showed that with the pre-war strength they could not cope with the work. Therefore, by order of the People's Commissar of Defense of August 18, 1941, the Directorate of the Special Service of the General Staff of the Red Army was created with a total number of 197 military personnel and 50 employees.

By order of the NPO dated October 7, 1941, this Directorate was transformed into the 8th Directorate, and all special agencies were renamed into independent numbered departments (departments): at the headquarters of the fronts and armies - into the 8th departments, at the headquarters of corps (divisions) - into 6th departments (departments), with direct subordination to the chiefs of the respective headquarters.

During the war, the organizational structure, composition and number of special agencies were repeatedly subjected to changes due to the increased importance of the service and the role of special agencies in the overall system of command and control of troops (forces), changes in tasks and an increase in the volume of work carried out.

During the war, there was a very large increase in the number of personnel. During the war years, 5,530 special agencies were formed and reorganized, and 15,634 specialists were sent to staff them. Combat losses during the Great Patriotic War amounted to 2163 people.

What was the main task of special agencies during the war years?

In short, providing command of all levels with special communications.

In the first months of the war, the flow of information was several times greater than the physical capabilities of the personnel of special agencies. Officers worked hard for days, leaving only for meals, resting for two to three hours a day.

Great difficulties arose in the implementation of special communications with the headquarters of formations and units that were surrounded, as well as in the conduct of continuous battles.

But in any conditions of the combat situation, the special agencies sought to ensure the command of uninterrupted special communications, using various methods of accelerated information processing.

It should be especially noted that during the war the personnel of the service showed exceptional courage and high skill, working in incredibly difficult and difficult conditions under bombing and artillery and mortar fire, in dugouts and dugouts.

Our prominent generals and military leaders highly appreciated the work of special agencies during the Great Patriotic War.

What tasks were solved by special agencies in the post-war period?

First of all, mastering and summarizing the experience of organizing and implementing special communications in combat conditions and introducing it into the practice of special agencies and special training of personnel.

This work was carried out in the following main areas:

• preparation and publication of generalized materials, collections, abstracts outlining the experience of special agencies in combat conditions;
• the introduction of experience during the war into combat and special training of personnel;
• development of new guidelines for special work, taking into account the experience of the war, etc.

It should be noted that this experience made it possible for many years to determine the main directions for the development of the service, which is the most important link in the system of command and control of troops (forces), without which covert control and keeping secret information transmitted is unthinkable.

Therefore, the main task of the activities of special agencies in peacetime after the war was to constantly maintain them in a high degree of combat readiness.

- And what is the main thing in your work today, Evgeny Nikolaevich?

- First of all, keep up with the times, clarify the tasks and functions of the Service in accordance with ongoing and planned measures to improve the structure, composition and strength of the Armed Forces, in close connection with changes in the socio-economic situation in the country, the processes of democratization and openness of society.

In general, our Directorate, as before, solves special tasks to provide the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation with the necessary information to carry out the current tasks of command and control of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.

Among our main tasks:

• organization of measures to maintain secrecy in military command and control bodies, formations, military units and organizations of the Armed Forces;
• organization of covert command and control of troops and weapons;
• organization of information protection from unauthorized access;
• ensuring information security of the Russian Ministry of Defense in the field of mass media;
• organizing the work of systems for certification of means of protecting information of the Ministry of Defense according to the established requirements for information security and licensing the activities of military command and control bodies, formations, military units and organizations for admission to work related to the use of information constituting a state secret;
• coordination of the activities of the military command and control bodies of the Armed Forces related to the protection of information constituting a state secret.

The ultimate goal of this work is the establishment and observance in the Armed Forces of such a procedure that would exclude the transfer of information constituting state secrets and other information recognized by military command and control bodies as not subject to disclosure.

– What technical means are used by the specialists of the Service in the performance of the listed tasks?

- At present, several dozen types of modern special equipment, auxiliary equipment and special equipment rooms are supplied to the bodies of the State Secret Protection Service of the Armed Forces.

With the direct participation of specialists from the Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, work continues on the creation of new promising models of special communications equipment.

– In conclusion, Evgeny Nikolaevich, what would you like to convey through our magazine to your colleagues, veterans of the Service in connection with its 90th anniversary?

- First of all, I want to note that the employees of special bodies were and are now a model of vigilance, devotion to duty, they show an example of selfless service to our Fatherland. Among them there are many who honorably fulfilled their duty in "hot spots", participated in the aftermath of the disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, in the course of counter-terrorist operations in the North Caucasus, the operation to force Georgia to peace in August this year. I wish all the personnel of the Service, respected veterans, good health, optimism, faith in the future and family well-being!

photo from the archive of the Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation

MARUSIN Evgeny Nikolaevich was born on October 21, 1954 in the village of Melikhovskoye, Rostov region. In 1972-1973. passed military service on conscription in the Turkestan military district.
In 1977, he graduated from the Tashkent Higher Combined Arms Command School and served in the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany as a commander of a reconnaissance platoon, a reconnaissance company of a regiment, and head of reconnaissance of a regiment. After graduating in 1986 from the Military Academy named after M.V. Frunze served in command and staff positions in a motorized rifle division, the headquarters of the Transcaucasian Military District and the Group of Russian Forces in Transcaucasia.
After graduating from the Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in 1997, he held responsible positions at the headquarters of the North Caucasus Military District. Since December 2001, the head of intelligence - deputy chief of the Main Staff of the Ground Forces.
By Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of May 29, 2007, he was appointed Head of the Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. Candidate of Technical Sciences. He was awarded the orders "For Service to the Motherland in the Armed Forces of the USSR" 3rd degree, "For Personal Courage", Courage, "For Military Merit" and ten medals.